social bookmarking

American  

[soh-shuhl book-mahr-king] / ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˈbʊkˌmɑr kɪŋ /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the practice of saving bookmarked web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other internet users.

   Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.

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Other Word Forms

• social bookmark
  noun

Etymology

Origin of social bookmarking

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

Del.icio.us CEO Joshua Schachter reflects on selling his one-beloved social bookmarking site to Yahoo.

From The Verge • Oct. 19, 2018

“Either they are going to be the face of the industry, or someone else is,” Maciej Ceglowski, the founder and CEO of the social bookmarking website Pinboard, recalled thinking, when I interviewed him in January.

From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2017

Promising acquisitions, including photo-sharing site Flickr and social bookmarking service Delicious, withered on the vine.

From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2016

Having stuck doggedly with Delicious - the social bookmarking service - to store links to interesting articles, the experience became "so bad" that he fell into the arms of Evernote.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2015

Earlier this year, Rakuten, often dubbed the Amazon of Japan, led a $100 million investment in the social bookmarking site, at a reported $1.5 billion valuation.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2012